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[haute_cuisine]

This line is for ladies only!

The rest of you assholes just leave a message -- I'll get around to you if I feel like it!

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[haute_cuisine]

Th- they're fine! Dammit --

[ It's a few moments more for him to recover, to allow tears to continue their overflow from his eye down to the scruffy line of his jaw, to scrub all evidence away by the absorbent material of his gloves as he palms it over his eyes and nose... rubbing over his beard until it's all wiped away. His eyes are rimmed in red but he hopes his hair provides adequate cover as he glares back into his palm reader. ]

Where the fuck have you been?!

[rubbernecking]

Then answer me sooner! You got me worried!!

[ For fuck's sake Luffy you have NO RIGHT to get frustrated! ]

Oh yeah, that -- I ended up in prison, they just let me out!

[haute_cuisine]

You asshole, you got yourself jailed? Did you get involved in that Guardian bullshit?!

[ Prison. Of course it'd be prison. That explains everything - the dead air, the inability for anyone to find out where he was... the fact he just dropped off the face of everything. Understanding shakes out of him in a nervous, disbelieving laugh. ]

I outta kick your ass! You had us all worried!

[rubbernecking]

Yeah, even I wanna kick my ass! I was real worried about those kids, but it turns out I really screwed up!

Anyway, they're taking lots of the money I get for a whole year and I gotta wear this thing--

[ There's a metallic glint from the bracelet around his wrist as he lifts his hand into view of the Palm Reader. ]

So, I can't keep Lily and I'unno if I can even still stay here! Do you have somewhere Lily can stay?